Abdullah Khan

ABDULLAH KHAN, a Mumbai-based screenwriter, novelist, literary critic, and banker,

has contributed to numerous South Asian, American, and British literary journals and newspapers including The Hindu, Brooklyn Rail, Wasafiri, Frontline, Outlook among others. His debut novel, Patna Blues, has been translated into 10 languages worldwide. His second novel, A Man from Motihari, was published in April 2023.

Latest from Abdullah Khan

Theo of Golden is attorney, judge, singer/songwriter Allen Levi’s debut novel.

A portrait or a parable? | Review of Theo of Golden by Allen Levi

Nainital, where the story blooms, is more than just a backdrop; it infuses the story with atmosphere and texture.

A gentle love story | Review of Once Upon a Summer by Manjul Bajaj

Review of Lonely People Meet, novel by Sayantan Ghosh

Candles lit in remembrance of children who lost their lives in the Palestine-Israel-Lebanon region, in the Netherlands, December 2024.

Review of International Booker Prize-longlisted The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem

Renowned Pakistani Urdu poet Zehra Nigah in New Delhi, March 2012.

Defining a woman’s worth | Review of Zehra Nigah’s poetry collection, The Story of Eve, translated by Rakshanda Jalil

A painting of Mir Taqi Mir, 1786.

Mir in a modern idiom | Review of ‘The Homeland’s an Ocean’, Mir Taqi Mir’s couplets translated by Ranjit Hoskote

The author introduces Falak Ara, a fictional daughter of Bahadur Shah Zafar, as the central character of her novel.

From the depths of Shahjahanabad | Review of ‘A Firestorm in Paradise’, debut novel by historian Rana Safvi

Woman with hands up on the top of mountain. Vector illustration. Blue Ridge Mountains, North Carolina, USA.

Escape to the mountains | Review of Namita Gokhale’s ‘Never Never Land’

Each dish, passed down through generations, held within it the cultural tapestry of Delhi.

Delicious Delhi

The socio-cultural landscape of Kerala is also explored in this book with references to myths and legends.

Review of The Dreams of a Mappila Girl — A Memoir: Growing up in a Mappila joint family in Kerala of the 1950s

A woman’s word: Abdullah Khan reviews ‘The Punch Magazine Anthology of New Writing’

Molly Gray investigates: Abdullah Khan reviews Nita Prose’s ‘The Maid’

A still from ‘Rajnigandha’

Luminous ladies: Abdullah Khan reviews ‘The Wise Woman and Other Stories’ by Mannu Bhandari, trs Vidya Pradhan

‘But You Don’t Look Like a Muslim’ review: The long shadow of Partition

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